With my hurt rib, I haven’t felt like doing much. But I have been watching a ton of Bob Ross reruns. I wanted to try one of his black canvas techniques. There’s a video here: https://youtu.be/sWon-sQzUIA

Sometimes you just need to change your venue. You need to clear your head of all of life’s struggles. You find yourself eliminating anything not directly involved in breathing. Slowly, you begin to realize that life is more than just breathing. More importantly, you start to focus on just why you’re breathing in the first place. This move to Houston, while ultimately fabulous for my family, is taking its toll on us. I have the better end of the deal in that I am not having to be a single parent and all the struggles that go with that. On the other hand, they get to hold each other at night.

A few of you may have noticed that the show has been on extended hiatus. I hope to get it back up and running with its original focus in the next few weeks, but I’m not rushing anything. Right now, I’m just breathing.

Boy2’s birthday is the day before mine. That was an awesome gift to me six years ago. This year, our birthdays happened 500 or so miles apart. It made for a pretty gloomy birthday. We made up for it on the weekend though at Chuck E. Cheese.

You can watch this page unfold at 20 time the speed of by watch the video quiche (pronounced “quickie”) over at the You Tube here: https://youtu.be/iNmXDtYA_f4

You can watch this page roll out in real time with everything but the hair drying in the video Longy over at the You Tube here: https://youtu.be/CvQuzPRXoV8

You can also skip over and see what others were sharing by watching the Easel Video also over at the You Tube here: https://youtu.be/vQMOZUOQZOY

My life is starting to gain a modicum of normalcy. I appreciate a few weeks with no surprises. However, that leaves me with not much to talk about. And so, if you have nothing to say, then say nothing out loud!

You can watch this page unfold at 20 time the speed of by watch the video quiche (pronounced “quickie”) over at the You Tube here: https://youtu.be/GpOltVQWC7M

You can watch this page roll out in real time with everything but the hair drying in the video Longy over at the You Tube here: https://youtu.be/DyxGzqvGKl4

You can also skip over and see what others were sharing by watching the Easel Video also over at the You Tube here: https://youtu.be/LRgE2-bFOYg

With the holidays and 2015 drawing to a close, I also am closing a whole chapter in my life. I am officially starting the new year as a Texican! This will bring all of the galavanting around the countryside to an end and let me focus more time on my family, my health, my work, and my art. I look forward to amazing things in 2016, and can’t wait to see what you do with it too! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I sincerely hope that you had a safe and happy Halloween! Here are the videos from this week’s Halloween episode:

It was the fifth week of the Halloween season here at the artistic biker live! And really what could be more scary than a fat man in a white spandex suit with gold lamay hot pants? Wherever there is a damsel in a dress there is Titan Buff to save the day!
This week’s easels came to us from the sexy redheaded Darcy, the mighty Jay The Viking, and the adorable AthalaMiley

The Easels

What’s On Your Easel? What have you been doing with yourself? I sincerely want to know what you are currently drawing, painting, sculpting, dancing, writing, singing, choreographing, photogging, or otherwise artistically making love to!Â Send an email to blade@artisticbiker.com and we’ll use your works to inspire other because that’s what this is really all about!

Spring and fall are my favorite two weeks in Oklahoma. This week we played a little with atmospheric perspective by making the back ground a bit hazy so as to “push it back”.. to the background on might say… When I saw the shape of the foreground, however, I saw a ginger and took the page in a completely different direction. Yay!

Jay the Viking

The Sexy, Red-headed Darcy

Artist Poet Girl

The Family

I won’t fill this space with all the pics of the SUPER BLOOD MOON ECLIPSE that we stayed up to watch. But I will share with you this photo of a demonstration on ruining night vision. COMPLETELY blinded them for at leas a minute with the flash. Â :)
Also note the drawings on the sidewalk. Those are chalk renditions of what is happening during the eclipse. There’s a video of that on the Facebook fan page.Â CLICK HEREÂ to “like” it and watch the video.

Studio & World Tour

I got to visit with Artist Poet Girl, Jamie Lynn, in her studio! She was gracious enough to, not only make me coffee, but to give me some canvases and paint to play with. I painted a 30 minute portrait of her. Â :)
What a lovely woman, and the hugs alone made the trip well worth it!

Season 6 has ended and it’s time for a new Journal. Using paper grocery sacks, embrodery thread, an old candle, plastic sewing needles, a drill (optional), an old box and a large sheet of watercolor paper, I have CREATED LIFE! Wait, no I didn’t. But I did make the New Season 7 Art Journal.

The Easels

What’s On Your Easel? What have you been doing with yourself? I sincerely want to know what you are currently drawing, painting, sculpting, dancing, writing, singing, choreographing, photogging, or otherwise artistically making love to!Â Send an email to blade@artisticbiker.com and we’ll use your works to inspire other because that’s what this is really all about!

This week’s easel submissions are from The Athala, The Mighty Jay the Viking, The Sexy, Red-Headed Darcy, Zandra, and Pamela French.

With two little one and an art teacher bride, the first week of school has been lovingly termed “Plague Week” The precious heads all come back to school with every germ imaginable to share with the WHOLE school. :)

This week’s easel submissions

Daddy/Daughter Weekends

As the little girl gets older, (Can you believe she’s 10 already?!?!) I find she is not quite as willing to get up on a Saturday to go sketching with her old man. However, I did find a mighty girl activity that will jump out of bed for, ARCHERY!

She got better, we both did. Believe it or not, this was both of our first time to shoot.
Here’s mine: